13.
What is Tuning?
• Identify learning outcomes in each academic
discipline
• Identify competencies that support learning
outcomes
• Identify methods students use to demonstrate
mastery of competencies
• Make transparent all of the outcomes, competencies
and demonstration methods
• Tuning clearly states what a student must know and
do at every degree level
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Benefits of Tuning
• Explicit learning
outcomes/competencies
• Shift from inputs to
expectations of what
graduates should know
and be able to do
• Better match between
needs of labor market and
what graduates know and
can do
• Facilitates transfer
• Coherent and
purposeful curriculum
• Transparent
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22.
Tuning and Common Core
State Standards
• Both identify competencies and learning
expectations
• Both are coherent
• Both are transparent
• Both will raise level of performance
• Alignment between high school and college is
possible
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24.
Identification of Learning Outcomes
and Competencies Should be a
Guideline for Education Policy
• Better definition of what higher education does
• Built in accountability with assessments
• Transparent learning expectations and
demonstration of mastery
• Coherent curriculum
• Closer tie to future employers
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Pipeline
• Clearly written
college/workforce
standards
• Build upon K-12 Common
Core by using clear
educational outcomes,
instead of seat time, in
general education
• Change concurrent
enrollment to focus on
general education
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• Increased use of “mixed” or
“blended” delivery
• Use 12th grade as first year of
college – fund early college
enrollment
• Create community college
centers within 4-year
institutions
• Improve articulation with ATC
institutions and programs
• Support branch campuses
Expansion
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44.
Transformation Through Efficiencies
and Technology
• Enhance online education opportunities through
coordinated approach targeted for general education
courses
• More efficient use of campus; reduce time to
completion
• Use open courseware to reduce book costs
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46.
Intersection of Tuning and 2020
• Build upon K-12 Common Core
• Define outcomes & competencies for general
education
• Put general education in online/hybrid formats, and
offered by many providers
• Shifts concurrent enrollment to early college
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